'Dawg, have you ever considered moving from Blogger to Wordpress? While they're certainly not perfect, they tend to not explode in such a spectacular fashion. It's also especially hard to completely hose an in-progress blog post. They've got free options over at www.wordpress.com, but if you've got access to a nerd with a webhost, you can do self-hosted for a very small outlay of time n' effort.

best, and I look forward to your future blog posts regardless of platform,--LW

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but iGoogle is gonna go away on November 1, 2013. It'll be a while yet, but it is coming.

And a lot of these problems are associated with browser plugin problems, which means you might want to try a different web browser. That means something besides Internet Explorer, like Chrome or Firefox. Not trying to be condescending, just know that you look at PCs as magic elf boxes!